Quotes by Women Authors

The soul is a millstone, an albatross, it meddles in everything. It creates ties to torture us.

Marie Vieux Chauvet

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

Patricia Wentworth

Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

Suspense is torture... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

Dignity is like morality, Mirabilis barked. Too much is as bad as too little.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

María Irene Fornés

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.

Denise Levertov

I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

Elizabeth Scott (author)

To die for one's great ideas is glorious — and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

John Oliver Hobbes

Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.

The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.

Reason is necessarily the language of moral, political, and scientific argument: not because reason is holy or on some elevated plane, but because it isn't; because it is accessible to all humans; because, as well as working, it can be seen to work.

When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I'm in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn't real at all.

Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.

Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.

But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

Marietta Holley

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

Karen Armstrong

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every move. If you value writing, they will learn quickly to value it too, as something they can give to someone, or receive with pleasure from someone else.

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.